Quick Facts About Child Abuse
Almost any adult is capable of child physical abuse or neglect given the right set of circumstances.
Most people who abuse their children are not intentionally harming their child.
Shaking an infant or toddler can cause brain damage or death.
Most child abductions happen with a person a child knows and trusts.
Child sexual abusers do not show abnormal patterns on psychological tests.
90% of sexual abusers are someone the child knows and trusts.
30 to 50% of child sexual abuse is committed by another child.
One out of every 4 girls and one out of every 7 boys will be sexually abused as a child.
Treatment of sex offenders (if completed) is successful in most cases.
There are many actions any person can take to prevent child abuse, even if you don’t have a child.
Child abuse occurs in every socioeconomic group, every race, every religion, and every type of family.
The primary causes of child abuse and neglect are; lack of accurate information about child development, isolation from the community, being a parent who was abused as a child, parental alcohol or drug abuse, parental depression, lack of helping resources, and child’s special needs.
